Career Center holds “Celebration of Learning” at MUHS

The Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center provides vocational and technical education to students and adults in the 17 Addison County towns served by the Addison Central, Addison Northwest and Mount Abraham Unified school districts. Students take time away from their home high school to take part in hands-on and classroom instruction at the Career Center’s main campus and satellite campus in Middlebury. On May 29, the Career Center held a Celebration of Learning at the Middlebury Union High School Auditorium … (read more)

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